Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who attended the conference heard one worth-while address, a discussion of nutritional problems in wartime by Dr. W. E. Krauss of the Wooster, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. The rest were more variations on the theme of "Turn the New Deal Rascals Out," with an irresponsible overworking of the...
Calling for a national crusade among youth, Father John W. Keogh, re-elected president of the Union, urged that families should not serve liquor at home, that banquets should not include it on the menu. Said he: "Total abstinence should begin with youth." In the Philadelphia Archdiocese (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut...
Said Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, spiritual director of the Union: "If it were possible for Father Theobald Mathew to give the pledge to about 600,000 Catholics when we were comparatively few in this country, why cannot the pledge be given to 25,000,000 today?"
Born in 1790, Mathew went to Ireland's famed Maynooth seminary, got expelled for his convivial ways. He joined the poverty-praising Franciscans, later got a parish in poverty-ridden Cork. Unlike most priests of his time, Father Mathew gladly worked with Protestants ("We should bear with each other...
Within eight months 150,000 people of Cork and nearby areas had taken the pledge. Soon Father Mathew was drying up Irishmen by the thousand. Within six years Ireland's annual consumption of whiskey fell from twelve and a quarter million to five and a half million gallons.